Lin Xian rose from his crouched position and looked down at Chu Anqing, who was a head shorter:
"Are you okay?"
Chu Anqing nodded and then shook her head:
"Sorry... I just failed to catch that space-time particle. I should have been able to, but as I jumped, I was yanked by the tether. Not only did I not jump up, but I was also pulled off course."
"So, the space-time particle just brushed past the outer shell of the rice cooker, pierced through my palm, and then vanished in a flash."
...
Lin Xian narrowed his eyes.
He caught the information in Chu Anqing's words.
So that's it.
The reason Chu Anqing reacted so intensely just now, screaming, bleeding from the nose, staring blankly, shaking all over, was all because she had come into contact with a space-time particle.
Lin Xian had not ruled out this possibility earlier.
But now, aside from Chu Anqing, no one else could see the space-time particle, so no one knew whether she had actually caught it or not.
